Application Notes:

Applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET on April 1, 2024.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

Applications must include:

• SF 424
• SF 424A
• SF LLL
• Table of contents
• Project abstract summary
• Project narrative and work plan (20 pages max)
• Budget narrative
• Data management plan (if applicable)
• Additional attachments (as applicable):
  • Resumes/CVs
  • Position descriptions
  • Letters of support
  • Organizational charts
  • Indirect cost rate (if applicable)
  • Bonda fide status documentation (if applicable)
  • Nonprofit status verification (if applicable)
  • Staffing plans
  • Bylaws or signed board resolutions
  • Proof of national scope of work
  • Proof of public health charge or mission

Project narratives must be formatted on single-spaced, numbered pages with one-inch margins using a 12-point font. Attachments may be submitted in Word, Excel, or .pdf format.

The following are required in order to submit an application:

• Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
• SAM (System for Award Management) registration
• SPOC (state Single Point of Contact) notification

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam. Applicants in states participating in the SPOC program must contact the relevant SPOC listed in the SPOC file before applying.

Optional but strongly encouraged letters of intent (LOIs) must be emailed to the appropriate addresses provided in the Contact section by March 13, 2024.

The recording of a conference call held for this program can be found online at www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway.

Applications will be evaluated using the following criteria:

• Approach (25 points)
• Evaluation and performance measurement (25 points)
• Applicant's organizational capacity to implement the approach (50 points)

Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.

Match Notes:

Matching funds are not required for this program; however, leveraging other resources and related ongoing efforts to promote project sustainability is strongly encouraged.

Funding Notes:

An estimated $62 million is expected to be available through this program overall, with an unspecified amount available to support an estimated six cooperative agreements of at least $500,000 per budget period through this component. The average award per budget period is expected to be $500,000. A total of $12.4 million is expected to be available through this program overall for fiscal year 2024.

This program utilizes the U38 award mechanism.

This program has two funding strategies. The funding amounts provided for the current fiscal year represent approximate funding for funding strategy 1; however, additional funding from other funding agency centers, institutes, and offices may be available under funding strategy 2, as detailed on page 12 of the NOFA file.

For funding strategy 1, award notifications will be issued by August 2024. For funding strategy 2, if applicable, award notifications will be issued by mid- to late September 2024.

Project periods will span five years, consisting of five 12-month budget periods. Project periods are expected to begin on August 1, 2024. Continuation funding beyond the first year is contingent upon funding availability, project performance, and the determination that continued funding is in the best interest of the federal government.

Generally, funds may not be used for the purchase of furniture or equipment. Any such costs must be clearly identified in budgets.

Other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, funds may not be used for:

• Publicity or propaganda purposes for the preparation, distribution, or use of any material designed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation before any legislative body
• The salary or expenses of any award or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, administrative action, or executive order proposed or pending before any legislative body

Funds may not be used for:

• Duplication of efforts and budgetary overlaps
• Research
• Clinical care, except as allowed by law
• Pre-award costs, except with prior funding agency approval
• Projects where the primary activity is planning and implementation of a conference or meeting
• Advising or supporting federal advisory committees or other inherently federal activities
• Hiring staff and placing them at a federal agency to perform work on behalf of that agency
• Acquiring goods or services to benefit the funding agency or its mission

March 28, 2024
A recording of a conference call for this program has been released, and a link to the presentation is available in the Application section. In addition, general information regarding the populations of focus for this program overall, and a list of answers to frequently asked questions regarding this program have been released and attached as the PopulationOfFocus and FAQ files, respectively. The Eligibility section has been updated accordingly.